Eye-cups.



No. 676,379. Patented lune ll, I90L F. ,E- YOUNG.

EYE CUPS.

(Application filed Feb. 5, 1900.)

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UNITE STATES FRANK E. YOUNG, OF CANTON, OHIO.

EYE-CUPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 676,379, dated June 11, 1901. Application filed February 5, 1900- Serial'No- 8,996. (Nomodel.'!

To all whom zlt may concern.

Be itknown that I, FRANK E. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Canton, in the county'of Stark and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Eye-Cups; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the figures of referencemarked thereon, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the Fig. 2is a detached sectional View of one of the eyecups. Fig. 3 is asectional view on line 00 m, Fig. 1. Fig. tisalongitudinal sectionthrough Fig. 1, except that the eye-cups are removed. Fig. 5 is atransverse section through line y '31, Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a View throughline y 3. Fig. 3, showing a slight modification. Fig. 7 is a top View ofthe eye-cups, showing the contact rim or roll. Fig. 8 is a detached viewof a section of tubes, showing a malleable coil with flexible imperviouscovering.

The present invention has relation to eyecups; and it consists in thedifferent parts and combinations of parts hereinafter described, andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding partsin all thefigures of the draw- In the accompanying drawings, 1 represents theexpansion-bulb, which is formed of a size and shape to carry out theobject and purpose hereinafter described.

From one side of the bulb l are extended the tubes or arms 2, which armsor tubes are preferably formed integral with the bulb 1 and aresubstantially of the form shown in the drawings. Said arms may connectseparably or jointly with the expansion-bulb shown. To the outer ends ofthe arms or tubes 2 are connected therewith or formed integral theeye-cups 3, which eye-cups are located and arranged substantially asshown in the drawings, and for the purpose of providing suitableadjustment of the eye-cups to the eyes the arms or tubes are formedflexible, as hereinafter described.

For the purpose of providing proper contact or counter pressure upon thecovering of the body portion or margin of the orbit the eye-cups 3 areso shaped and designed that they will snugly fit upon said covering,thereby preventing the air from entering the eyecups after the air hasbeen exhausted or withdrawn from the eye-cups, as hereinafter described.

For the purpose hereinafter described the eye-cups 3 are each providedwith the myopic or cornea concave 4, which myopic concaves are locatedsubstantially as illustrated in the drawings.

The contact-rims 5 of the eye-cups 3 are convex and curved upward towardtheir ends, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, in such shape orcontour as to fit the surface around the eye proper.

- In use the eye-cups 3 are formed integral and may also be formedintegral with the arms or tubes 2 and the bulb 1. All of the above partsmay be formed integral, if desired; but in the drawings I haveillustrated the eye-cups 3 formed separate; but it is immaterial, as theobject and purpose of the present invention can be carried out withoutany reference to the manner of connecting the parts together.

For the purpose of providing proper adjustment for the arms 2, togetherwith the eye-cups 3, said arms may be provided with inlaid wires 2, asillustrated in Fig. 6, or a modified form, such as shown in Fig. 8, maybe employed, which consists of a coiled wire 7"-, covered with flexibleimpervious material, the flexibility of said wires, tubes, or coilsbeing of such a degree that the arms 2, together with the eye-cups 3,can be easily and quickly adjusted to the necessary angle or positionand at the same time hold said arms or tubes and eye-cupsat the desiredpoint of adjustment.

The expansion-bulb is provided with the thumb and finger sockets ordepressions 9, which are located opposite each other, as illustrated inFig. 3.

In use the cups 3 are properlyadjusted as to space and angularity by thebending of the tubes 2 so as to fit the cups over the eye, and with thethumb and finger upon the bulb it is compressed, thereby forcing the airtherefrom. The bulb should not be at once released, but by alternateslight pressure and release of the bulb by the thumb and finger isallowed to gradually expand, which movement produces a vibratory motion,being a mild mechanical scientific massage of the eye and its structure.\Vhen the bulb has fully expanded, it is again compressed, and themovement repeated, and so on during the treatment.

The object and purpose of forming the arms flexible is to provide ameans for first adjusting the eye-cups upon the orbital surface aroundthe eye, the flexibility of such arms being such that the adjustmentwill remain unless force is applied to displace the adjustment.

Having fullydescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As an improved article of manufacture, binocular eye-cups providedwith myopic or cornea concaves located in the lower portions of the cupsand the cups provided with contact rims or flanges concavedlongitudinally and the flanges or rims convexed transversely,

tubes connected to the cups proper and said arms connected to thebulb,.and the bulb, all arranged, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, binocular eye-cups providedwith myopic or cornea cavities located in the lower portions of the cupsand the cups provided with con- FRANK E. YOUNG.

Witnesses:

J. A. JEFFERS, F. W. BOND.

